Solar Jobs In The USA Grew 25% In 2016
One out of every 50 new jobs created in the USA last year was in the solar energy industry according to The Solar Foundation’s just-published National Solar Jobs Census 2016 report. The solar workforce grew by 25 percent over 2015 to reach 260,077, the largest annual growth percentage since the first Census was released in […]
Biomimetic Trees To Harvest Wind Power?
A group of Iowa State University scientists have developed a biomimetic tree that could – emphasise “could” – harness wind power to generate electricity for charging small household appliances. The device produces energy when artificial leaves attached to a metallic trellis flutter and sway in the wind. Piezoelectric strips inside the leaf stalks generate an […]
Enphase Awarded Best Inverter 2017 Seals of Approval
Enphase Energy, Inc. has been awarded EuPD Research’s seals of approval for “Best Inverter 2017” in the Netherlands, France and the UK. “These respected industry seals of approval confirm Enphase’s commitment to quality, product innovation and technological leadership that help to create trustworthy products such as our inverters, and innovative new products, including our AC […]
Why Clean Coal Doesn’t Stack Up For Australia
The business and environmental case for so-called clean coal in Australia simply doesn’t stack up says the Climate Institute. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s announcement last week that the Coalition would pursue cleaner coal as part of a “technology-agnostic” approach to energy has met with significant skepticism and criticism. The Climate Institute has since put […]
NT Announces “Bigger, Better” Home Improvement Scheme
Home owners in Darwin and throughout the Northern Territory thinking about going solar now have an added incentive – the re-launched Home Improvement Scheme. The previous scheme offered vouchers of up to $2,000 to go towards home improvements, such as the purchase of solar power systems and battery storage. The new scheme offers double that […]
Solar PV And Electric Vehicles Could Topple Fossil Fuel – Soon
A new report warns fossil fuels may lose 10 per cent of market share to solar panels and electric vehicles within just a decade; enough to cripple energy incumbents. The report, published by Imperial College Of London’s Grantham Institute was authored by Luke Sussams and James Leaton of Carbon Tracker. It argues that business-as-usual (BAU) […]
174,340 Solar Panels Along Canberra’s “Solar Highway”
An extra 36,000 solar panels now installed along Canberra’s “solar highway” will generate enough clean electricity to power approximately 3,000 ACT homes. Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability Shane Rattenbury announced on Friday that the Territory’s Williamsdale Solar Farm has been completed. The facility will produce around 21,900 megawatt hours of electricity annually. “Canberra is […]
“Clean Coal” Power Generation Costly And Risky
The Coalition’s ambitions for building power plants based on “state-of-the-art clean coal-fired technology” are meeting a good deal of resistance – and not just from tree-huggers. In an address to the National Press Club on Wednesday, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull outlined his party’s vision of a technology-agnostic approach to energy in Australia; which it seems […]
Super-Efficient, Low-Cost Solar Still Unveiled
A multinational team working out of the University at Buffalo’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a prototype solar water purifier capable of producing drinkable water from contaminated or salty liquids at 2.4 times the rate of leading commercial products. The solar still system, called a “solar vapour generator”, cleans and desalinates water […]
“Technology-Agnostic” Energy Policy : PM Turnbull
Stating that the battle lines have been drawn, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull yesterday outlined what he called the Coalition’s “clear-eyed, pragmatic and objective” approach to cheaper energy. Speaking at the National Press Club, the Prime Minister took aim at some of the states pursuing their own renewable energy targets, saying they had given no […]